quintet

English

Alternative forms

quintette

Etymology

From French quintette, from Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth”), itself from Latin quintus, related to quīnque (“five”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwɪnˈtɛt/
Audio (RP) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 4	5	6 →
Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Collective: fivesome Multiuse collective: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek or Latinate collective: pentad Greek collective prefix: penta- Latinate collective prefix: quinque- Fractional: fifth Latinate fractional prefix: quintant- Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek prefix: pempto- Number of musicians: quintet Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum

Noun

quintet (plural quintets)

(music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
(music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
Any group of five members

Synonyms

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Translations

(music) a composition in five parts

Catalan: quintet m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)
Czech: kvintet (cs) m
Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
Finnish: kvintetto (fi)
French: quintette (fr) m
Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
German: Quintett (de) n
Greek: κουιντέτο (el) n (kouintéto)
Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
Icelandic: kvintett (is) m
Italian: quintetto (it) m
Japanese: クインテット (kuintetto), 五重奏 (gojūsō), 五重唱 (gojūshō)
Korean: 퀸텟 (kwintet), 오중주 (ko) (ojungju), 오중창 (ko) (ojungchang)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvintett m
Nynorsk: kvintett m
Polish: kwintet (pl) m
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét)
Spanish: quinteto (es) m
Swedish: kvintett (sv) c
Tagalog: limahan

(music) a group of five musicians

Bulgarian: квинтет m (kvintet)
Catalan: quintet m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)
Czech: kvinteto (cs) n
Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
Finnish: kvintetti (fi)
French: quintette (fr) m
Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
German: Quintett (de) n
Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
Icelandic: kvintett (is) m
Italian: quintetto (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvintett m
Nynorsk: kvintett m
Polish: kwintet (pl) m
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét)
Spanish: quinteto (es) m
Swedish: kvintett (sv) c

any group of five

Afrikaans: kwintet
Albanian: kuinteti
Armenian: կվինտետ (hy) (kvintet)
Azerbaijani: kvintet
Basque: boskotea
Belarusian: квінтэт (kvintet)
Bulgarian: квинтет (kvintet)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) (wǔchóngzòu)
Corsican: quintettu
Czech: kvintet (cs)
Danish: kvintet (da)
Dhivehi: ކްއިންޓެޓް‎ (k̊in̊ṭeṭ)
Dogri: क्विंटेंट (kviṇṭeṇṭ)
Dutch: vijftal (nl) n
Esperanto: kvinopo, quinteto (eo)
Estonian: kvintett
Finnish: viisikko (fi)
French: quintette (fr)
Galician: quinteto (gl)
Georgian: კვინტეტი (ḳvinṭeṭi)
German: Quintett (de) n
Greek: κουιντέτο (el) (kouintéto)
Hindi: पंचक (hi) (pañcak)
Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
Icelandic: kvintett (is)
Indonesian: kwintet
Italian: quintetto (it) m
Japanese: クインテット (kuintetto)
Kannada: ಕ್ವಿಂಟೆಟ್ (kviṇṭeṭ)
Kazakh: квинтет (kvintet)
Khmer: ឃ្វីនតេត (khviinteet)
Konkani: क्विंटेट (kviṇṭeṭ)
Korean: 오중주 (ko) (ojungju), 오창 (ochang), 퀸텟 (kwintet)
Kyrgyz: квинтет (kvintet)
Latvian: kvintets
Lithuanian: kvintetas
Luxembourgish: quintett
Macedonian: квинтет (kvintet)
Maithili: क्विंटेट (kviṇṭēṭ)
Malay: kuintet
Malayalam: ക്വിന്ററ്റ് (kvinṟaṟṟŭ)
Maori: tokorima
Marathi: पंचक (pañcak)
Mongolian: квинтет (kvintet)
Nepali: पंचक (pañcak)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvintett m
Nynorsk: kvintett m
Oriya: କ୍ୱିଣ୍ଟେଟ୍ (kwiṇṭeṭ)
Polish: kwintet (pl)
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro)
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m (kvintét), пятёрка (ru) f (pjatjórka), (collective) пя́теро (ru) pl (pjátero)
Rwanda-Rundi: kwintet
Sanskrit: क्विन्टेट् (kvinṭeṭ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: квинтет
Roman: kvintet (sh)
Slovak: kvinteto
Slovene: kvinteta
Spanish: quinteto (es) m
Sundanese: kwintet, quintét
Swedish: kvintett (sv)
Tajik: квинтет (kvintet)
Tatar: квинтет (kwintet)
Telugu: క్విన్టెట్ (kvinṭeṭ)
Thai: ควินเต็ต (khwin tĕt)
Tigrinya: ኲንተት (kʷintät)
Turkish: beşlik (tr)
Turkmen: kwintet
Ukrainian: квінтет (kvintet)
Uyghur: كۇيىنت‎ (kuyint)
Uzbek: kvintet (uz)
Vietnamese: ngũ tấu
Welsh: pumawd
West Frisian: kwintet
Yiddish: קווינטעט‎ (kvintet)
Zulu: i-quintet